648 MR. W. L. DISTANT ON AFRICAN PAPILIONES. [Julie 17, 



this are three spots — one just inside upper apical portion of cell, 

 another about same size parallel to it just outside cell and upper 

 disco-cellular nervule, third and smallest immediately above second — 

 and two subapical spots of the same colour situated between third, 

 fourth, and fifth subcostal nervules. Lower wing crossed by a green 

 transverse fascia in continuation of, but slightly broader than that of 

 the fore wing, toothed externally, extending through and beyond 

 apical third of cell to near centre of abdominal margin, where it is 

 again somewhat narrower. A submarginal row of nine rounded 

 green spots situated one below first subcostal nervule, two wide apart 

 between second subcostal nervule and discoidal nervule, and the other 

 six in pairs closer together divided by the median nervules. 



Underside with the ground-colour and markings much as in P. 

 vharopus, West., but upper wings with a submarginal row of four 

 large, crescent-shaped sulphureous patches, situated between the 

 second discoidal nervule and the first, second, and third median 

 nervules. Lower wings with a submarginal row of twelve bright 

 sulphur-coloured spots, situated in pairs between the nervules, and 

 two others of the same colour, one at anal angle and one near lower 

 fourth of abdominal margin. 



$ . Above generally as in 3 . Underside with the four submar- 

 ginal, sulphureous, crescent-shaped patches to fore wings, but the 

 spots on the hind wings very obscure. 



Exp. wings, d 41 in., $ 4 T 8 7 in. 



Hab. Magila, East Africa. 



Allied to P. charopus, West., from which it is at once distinguished 

 by the narrow discal fasciae above and the different and bright sul- 

 phureous markings beneath. 



Papilio thersander, Fab. Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 32, n. 93 (1793); 

 West. Arc. Ent. i. t. 38. f. 1, 2 (1842). 



Mr. Kirby in his * Catalogue Diurn. Lepid.' p. 563, places this 

 species as the female of P. phorcas, Cram. Mr. Horniman's col- 

 lection, however, contains two male and two female specimens of 

 P. thersander ; and therefore such cannot be the case. The females 

 agree with Westwood's figure beneath better than above, the trans- 

 verse macular band of the fore wings being much more broken than 

 is portrayed in that figure. The male differs from the female in 

 having all the macular markings pale yellow instead of creamy white. 

 The male specimens are localized " Aburie, Accra." The female 

 specimens have no locality affixed. 



Papilio cypr^eafila, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 60 (1868). 



P.zenobia, Don. Nat. Rep. v. t. 179 (1827); Luc. Lep. Ex. t.24. 

 f. 1 (1835). 



All the specimens of the above species in this collection received 

 from Isubu, Mongo-ma-lobah, and Calabar agree with the figure of 

 Lucas and differ from that of Donovan (who records his specimen 

 from Sierra Leone) in the smaller size of the marginal white incisures 

 to the hind wings and also in the shape and size of the broken macular 



